Sampson McCoy

Sampson McCoy (12 February 1887-18 June 1961) was a US Army sergeant during World War I.

Biography
Sampson McCoy was born in Burlington, Vermont on 12 February 1887, and he worked as a gold miner before joining the US Army upon the outbreak of World War I in 1917. McCoy rose to the rank of sergeant in the American Expeditionary Forces, and he commanded a squad of "doughboys" at the Battle of Cantigny in May 1918. McCoy would become an insurance salesman after the war, and he died in 1961.